CLOUD v6.66 [T] [IC]

[disciplish]

NightlyWind

As everyone else attacked the monster, Wind tried his best to help. More or less. While each of the others had been switching out, Wind tried his best to attack the monster everyone else was fighting. But, as it so happened, no one seemed to notice and as he switched out for a few seconds, he tried to calm down a bit before jumping back into battle. The quick flurries, however, were no match to quelling the beast, and he had to move back and forth, alternating from being outside and making sure no one was going to attempt to attack him (what, people get paranoid in these situations!) and going back in to land a good number of hits. He, at least, didn't get hit, but he had one or two close calls. If his wings were activated, he would've been faster. It was, however, while he was out of the battle that he was first injured, from a hit scored by some guy behind him. Damn! He swiveled around, and then he saw another monster behind him. Spotted! And now... the Daemon ran backwards, to find that Dungeon Master Kits were littered on the floor and the monster had been defeated, which had given him some EXP.

"Quick, grab one and equip it!"

"Alright!" Wind picked up... a Soldier (OOC: sorry about that) pack, granting him some metallic green armor (for his torso). Red and green? Doesn't look that great... but it'll have to do. Also gaining a large, but weak, sword, he wielded it skillfully, looking for the next monster that would attack. His shield was up, making sure that he wouldn't be attacked out of surprise. Spotting some kinda blob coming close which had attacked him earlier, he got into a ready stance, waiting as the slow moving, yellow thing arrived...

 

[moon]

RYUUJINX

The white dragonlike DAEMON landed onto the back of the brown chicken monster and clawed herself stuck. The monster flailed its hands around but Ryuujinx punched it in the head from behind several times. Suddenly, the monster flung her over its neck and flat onto the floor in front of it though. Ryuujinx barely had time to roll aside before the monster thrust its beak into the ground where her head had just been. Looking back, sitting up, she saw that the monster's beak was stuck in the ground! It struggled to get loose but the dragon wasted no time; she dropkicked the creature to the head thanks to Arakira using an advanced keyboard combo. It wasn't always successful, but this time it had worked. The monster was pushed out of the hole in the ground by the kick, and merely shook its head before it let out a bird-like roar at the DAEMON and charged forward.

What clumsy opponents, Ryuujinx thought as she sidestepped the move even more easily than she had rolled away before, and watched it run headfirst into another monster. They couldn't be very high leveled.

"Quick, grab one and equip it!" Ryuujinx heard another DAEMON shout just then. She saw two of them run forth and pick up something from the ground. Following their example, the dragon did the same, not really looking at what she had picked up until she had moved to the back of the group where no monsters were in the immediate vicinity.

There, she examined the item and found it to be a starter class kit for Black Mage. "What?" she commented, but heard a roar from a monster and decided not to be picky. She could equip with something more fitting later; she hadn't been actively battling in CLOUD for long but she had never aspired to be a mage of any kind. Rather a soldier or other kind of direct fighter.

Equipping the kit immediately dressed her in dark purple robes, automatically fitting her long, slim body, gave her a long, black wooden staff in her left hand and put a strange ring on her right ring finger.

"This is... uh..."​

ARAKIRA

Arakira leaned back in the couch. She could hear the servants running around in the hallway outside the door to her little sister's room where she was. Commotion had finally begun. But there was still not much that the servants could do. They had to keep working for the Osumoto family.

She checked the time in the corner of the laptop's screen; it was getting late. But if this about CLOUD was true, pretty much no one was probably asleep now. She might as well stay up. It was not like she had a choice at the moment. Arakira sighed and leaned her head closer to the screen again, looking up what kind of basic starting spells her DAEMON had been given by the kit.​

 

[Swolligator]

Fletcher Davis, Melbourne, Australia

​

Fletcher just stared at the screen as the chaos erupted in front of him. Avatars passed by the screen in a rush in order to escape deletion; their users in a hurry to protect their lives.

And he would have to do the same.

This was unbelievable. He tried logging out again and again, but only received a warning message telling him that he was unauthorised to use this button. In rage, he swiped the bottle of water off if his desk. He still had classes to attend; he could not drop everything to sit at home and play this game. Switching his avatar into its wolf form, Fletcher scurried between the legs, hooves and sticks that held up the other avatars rushing around him. Hiding in the shadows of one of the pillars holding up the stadium, Fletcher turned from his monitor and began brushing his hands through his hair.

"This can't be happening…" He repeated over and over again but no matter how many times he said it, the truth was right in front of his eyes.

To: Kieran Davis
Re: Cloud
>Dude, what the hell is this?
> I need your help!
>Come on, I'm your brother!!
~End~

Relaxing, he let out a sigh, waiting for the unmistakeable vibration of his phone signalling an incoming text message while keeping an eye on the monitor where his avatar sat in stasis as the others fought one another. He pondered joining the fight, obtaining some keys and getting stronger, but he didn't really have the outstanding credentials of being a good fighter…

Bringing up a profile of his avatar, he scanned for the achievements bar, clicking on it. What Icarus had said was true; their accounts had been wiped entirely. His Kill/Death ratio had been restored to zero. It was a chance for Fletcher to restart and not have such a dismal rate. But the fact remained that his fighting skills in Cloud were pretty awful. Now would be the best time to learn.

From: Kieran Davis
Re: Cloud
>No.
~End~

"Goddamnit!" Kieran was always evasive and always shrugged him off. In a time like this where his entire identity was on the line, he still refused to help. It was Kieran's fault that Fletcher was even in this mess to begin with.

To: Kieran Davis
Re: Cloud
>If you can't, then who can?
~End~

From: Kieran Davis
Re: Cloud
>Ryuujinx.
~End~

The reply was instant, unusual for Kieran, but even ten minutes later; Fletcher hadn't even received another reply message. Two text messages later and still no response from Kieran.

"Fine then, don't help me, ass."

Fletcher returned to Cloud, letting out a sigh as his Daemon stood safe in the shadows as the stadium continued to empty. Bringing up the messaging menu, he crafted a quick message to Ryuujinx.

Hi Ryuujinx, this is Atreyu from the guild.
Are you still in the Stadium? Want to team up?

With message sent, Fletcher reclined in his chair, waiting for Ryuujinx to reply to his message. Hopefully they would agree and Fletcher would have at least one ally within this world; there's no telling how many of his supposed 'guild members' would quickly turn on him for his key. From now on, he needed to tread lightly.​

 

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

Micah Roran ~ Micah's Dorm-room, San Diego (California, USA)
Shaka Shaman ~ Arena



As ICARUS disappeared from the arena, chaos erupted around Micah. DAEMONS started killing each other left and right. Micah was pretty pissed right now. His identity could be stolen? Could he still go to college, or would they not let him? He didn't have that much money anyway, and whoever stole his identity would have about 20,000 dollars in student loans to pay off....but still. This....this isn't how CLOUD is supposed to work. Stealing people's identity? Is that really legal? And who is ICARUS anyway? Did he somehow manage to hack into CLOUD? Or was he working for them? And where is Hosoda? Can't he fix this? Or is he behind it himself?

Micah's thoughts were interrupted by a DAEMON attacking Shaka Shaman. Micah reacted fast, and jumped out of his seat to dodge its attack. Using his only advantage he had left, he took to the skies, and glided down to the center of the arena. There, several DAEMONS were fighting monsters. Ten-Wait, nine now, of them were closing in on what looked like a party. A guild perhaps? Maybe they would let Micah join. He angled towards them and dropped to the ground in a safe location. A monkey kid just got slapped across the face and was sent flying. Some crazy cat-mouse looking thing stepped in and finished off the monster. Micah noticed that it had dropped a starter kit, with a few class sets. The furry chick took all the potions and healing items, while a foxy lady (no really, she was a fox human hybrid) came by and grabbed a kit. She danced off and started back into the fray. A white dragon nabbed a kit as well, and put on some robes, a staff, and a ring.

Lastly a human DAEMON got a ranger suit, donning the green and red cloaks and wielding a sword(?)

Shaka Shaman walked over and bent down to get a kit himself. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if he got one, that is, if he helped out. He put on some white and red robes, much like his default ones, and got a wooden rod. He noticed that the knives from the thief set were there too. He grabbed those for a better weapon, at least for this first fight. Finally, he grabbed a white ring with a red stone, presumably to use magic. But he would have to level up first, to learn healing skills.

Just as The Shaman turned around, and plant-like demon attacked his with an outstretched vine. It whipped out, stinging the ground beside him. Shaka Shaman quickly tried to step on it, but it retracted too soon. Another vine lashed out, and Shaka caught it on his wrist. Micah cringed as his DAEMON's heal bar dropped ever so slightly. Shaka grabbed the vine wrapped around his arm, and yanked the demon forward. With his left hand, he caught the monster with his rod, hearing a crunch as he did. He then took his knife and cut the vine off from his arm. But the demon wrapped yet another vine around his leg, and brought him to a kneel. Micah started smashing the plant with his rod, to no avail. He simply wasn't doing enough damage to finish this quickly, and he was easy an easy target for a predator. He cut the vine off his leg, after wondering why he didn't do that in the first place, and jumped back. He quickly typed out a message to one of the other fighters, Pepperton.


To: Pepperton
From: Shaka Shaman
Subject: That red dragon guy fighting a plant monster (SOS)

Can you give me a hand? This guys tough, but he should go down if we double team him. I'll help you guys out if you help me.

The demonic foliage started to rise, with a vine arm cut short and a leg vine almost cut off. It stretched it's good arm out towards Shaka, who sidestepped out of the way. Ugh, why didn't fire breathing come as a level 1 skill?

 

[Skymin]

pepperton // phillippa watson
thunder arena // new york city, usa​

All of the other party members began to grab the class kits, leaving only White Mage and Ranger left. Pepperton wasn't a fan of either class (she was more of a close range fighter). But, healing was probably best for her since the others were assumably useless at it. But, just as she went to grabbed it, a dragon-like DAEMON, going by the username of "Shaka Shaman", snatched it up and joined the fight. What?! Who invited this guy?

"Hey!" Pepperton called out to him, but he very quickly became busy with a monster. Instead of complaining, she grabbed the last kit (Ranger, much to her dismay) and quickly equipped everything. The Light Armour wasn't too bad, consisting of leather scraps covering her body, but the bow and arrow set was atrocious. She could puke better weapons.

"What do I do, huh?" MonkeiBoi_89 said from quite far away from the fight. "I'll just stay here, I guess."

Pepperton didn't take any notice of him, instead opening up a message she had just received from the newcomer. What? Why didn't he just talk? Or at least type...

Can you give me a hand? This guys tough, but he should go down if we double team him. I'll help you guys out if you help me.

"Fine," Pepperton sent a party request to the dragon DAEMON and fired a series of arrows at the plant monster.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve arrows and then it was down. Shaka Shaman was close enough to grab the dropped experience but Pepperton rushed in to grab the item. A pair of rusted knuckles. Great. A message flashed across her screen before she could inspect them.

"Level up! You have now reached level 2!

You have learned a new weapon skill! FOCUS SHOT."

Ranging skills weren't of that use to her but at least she could now... shoot more precise shots? God, what an awful ability.

"Get back," she said to their new White Mage. "White Mages are not frontal fighters, they are healers. You help us. Keep us healthy so we don't die. Because if we die, you die. And you," she turned to the monkey and tossed the Rusted Knuckles at him. "Don't be lazy."

"...Uh, thanks," he said, as if she was burdening him rather than helping him.

So, two down. Eight to go.​

 

[moon]

RYUUJINX

Hi Ryuujinx, this is Atreyu from the guild.
Are you still in the Stadium? Want to team up?

Ryuujinx noticed the message and as she read it, she was a bit confused at first. She looked around; the stadium was beginning to empty, apart from some groups of DAEMONS who still foolishly battled each other, and their own group who had taken on the monsters in the middle. Atreyu... she did recognize that name. From the guild, huh? Ohr right!

She began moving back towards the fight, staff ready, while her human self typed up a response. Atreyu. That was the little wolf that had raided a dungeon with her group last week. Inside the dungeon, he was not so small anymore, towering up into some kind of werewolf creature of the same height as herself pretty much. But a lot stronger, probably. Now, strength didn't matter thought, since they had to grow up again all of them. Level 1, hah.

I'm still here. I'm the black mage with the robe and staff in the group that is taking on the monsters at the center of the arena. See the pillar of light? Get here and there might be a starter kit for you too, soon.

The chicken monster from before had been waging a scare-war against a rather frightened DAEMON who played brave by not backing down, while Ryuujinx had been busy with her new stuff. But the monster was getting bored now, it seemed. It moved forward in an attempt to squash the little DAEMON in front of it to pieces. Ryuujinx would normally have dashed forward and clawed the creature at the throat or face. But now, she didn't have that speed. Only the ring and the staff.

She pointed the staff at the chicken monster and her human self pressed the necessary buttons to throw the most basic attack of a black mage in CLOUD: Black Ray. A strangely hazy ray shot out from the dragon's staff and hit the chicken square in the chest. It was thrown backwards and coupled with the damage it had already taken from the previous round of their fight, the monster now died, signified by it shattering into pieces of data. Numbers were shown atop its gone body. It seemed like Ryuujinx had leveled up to level 2. Her dragon face smiled a little. This would take a while.

On the arena's floor, about to be stomped to pieces by the remaining 7 monsters, lay a few more basic class kits. Drop from the monster. She messaged Atreyu again.

Yep, there definitely is some gear for you here now. If you're quick.​

 

[Swolligator]

Fletcher Davis – Melbourne, Australia

I'm still here. I'm the black mage with the robe and staff in the group that is taking on the monsters at the center of the arena. See the pillar of light? Get here and there might be a starter kit for you too, soon.

Fletcher scanned the rapidly clearing dome for any site of this group. All around the dome, bands of DAEMONs fought each other for keys and for survival while others escaped through portals to other areas of Cloud where they felt safe.

Up ahead, he spotted the fluttering of a black cape in mid-air just as a wave of dark data obliterated a large chicken monster into small bytes of data. Falling like debris, a couple of starter kits dropped to the group as sparks appeared above the head of the black Mage. On screen, the small envelope flashed red as a small number one appeared announcing the arrival of a new message.

Yep, there definitely is some gear for you here now. If you're quick.

With hands at the ready, Fletcher raced his avatar forward. In the fox form, his avatar was agile and speedy, yet weak and vulnerable. His main goal was to dark in and pick up one of the starter kits before pulling back behind the group to quickly equip the gear. It was risky but the only way he was going to get anywhere in this game. Like a white blur, his fox Avatar scurried through the feet of other Avatars and across the floor where his prize lay in sight.​

Atreyu – Thunder Dome, Cloud Server

With starter kit in inventory, Atreyu retreated to the back ranks of this main group, transforming into his werewolf form before donning the gear. In this form, speed and agility gave way to defence and durability while also gaining an increase in attack. Medium weighted armour now covered his body; changing shape slightly to better fit his current physique. Now that he was all suited up, Atreyu made his way to the front line's where most of the fighting was taking place.

[GENERAL] Anyone call for a tank?

Atreyu leapt into the fray, putting force in his shoulder and knocking back a gorilla-ish monster. Un-equipping the sword and shield, he used a flurry of basic scratch moves by swiping at the gorilla in front of him. Every scratch Atreyu made on the beast, a tiny bit of data would evaporate into the air, but these seemed to fuel the creatures rage rather than weaken him. He felt the full weight of the gorilla's punch making contact with his body; the armour quickly losing durability with each hit.

As a tank, it was his job to take the brunt of the damage; however the gear he was wearing wasn't much in the way of tanking material. The best he could do would be to continue fighting the beast while DPS sorted themselves out quickly enough to aid him. By the looks of their health, he theoretically could take down this monster by himself, but without a healer, he would be in danger of dying.​

 

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

Micah Roran ~ Micah's Dorm
Shaka Shaman ~ THUNDER Arena

Micah noticed the layout of the battle menu change, showing the new allies' names in green, as opposed to the grey of before. Also, it gave him a box to type in as a sort of instant messaging to the whole party, so he wouldn't have to send individual messages anymore. Before he could come back to the fight, however, twelve arrows pierced the demon's chest. It went down in a rain of pixels, with the exp being magnetized straight to Shaka. Pepperton ran forward and nabbed a pair of really beat up gauntlets, presumably a drop from the demon. She spoke through her mic to Micah.

"Get back," she said to him, "White Mages are not frontal fighters, they are healers. You help us. Keep us healthy so we don't die. Because if we die, you die. And you," she turned to the monkey and tossed the Rusted Knuckles at him. "Don't be lazy."

Thanks, typed Micah into the message bar, And yeah, yeah, I know the drill.

Shaka Shaman took a few steps back, letting everyone fall in front of him. To his right, the dragon Ryuujinx felled another demon with some form of black magic. Ahead, mokeyboi_89 was mumbling to Pepperton. His health bar was lower than the rest of the party, so Shaka gave him the basic heal spell. It recovered him back to around 9/10ths health, but before Shaka could heal him a second time a werewolf looking daemon darted by taking on a gorilla monster.

Wearing heavy armor, the werewolf, who was named Atreyu, soaked up damage fairly well. His health however dropped lower than anyone else's presently, making him the top priority for Micah. Shaka cast one last Heal on mokeyboi_89, then turned back to Atreyu. He sent a volley of heals his way too, trying to keep up with the damage he was taking. The spells were just barely short of nullifying damage, only bringing Atreyu's health to a slow decline.

[Party Chat Box]

Shaka Shaman: I got you brotozoia

Micah would have to keep his attention on Atreyu for the time being if he desired to keep his health bar up.

 

[disciplish]

NightlyWind

The class kit Wind had picked up didn't only have weapons. Alright! A skill! Wind surveyed the skill that he had received. It was definitely worth it, as it was a *1.5 buff for physical attacks that lasted 5 seconds. Then, returning his gaze to the yellow blob ahead of him, he decided that now would be the perfect time to test this skill.

NightlyWind gets into position...
A red aura surrounds his blade! Aura Spark!

After the awesome message displayed by CLOUD, he began to run, bringing up his glowing red blade and bringing it down on this... slime looking thing. Then he jumped back, raising his shield and deflecting small yellow pellets. Weird. They reminded him of lemons. Bouncing back to hack and slash, he began a small pattern, with the occasional break for Aura Spark and a critical hit. After a while, which was long because many times he would have to replenish his energy before using Aura Spark again, he finally defeated the monster. The emanating red sword sliced the monster in half, destroying it and creating pixels of EXP.

Level Two reached!
ATK: +4
DEF: +5
AGL: +2
MP: +3
HP: +9

Wind grinned, but his smile faded into a frown afterwards. There was a lot of work to be done....

Hikoru

"Hey, you're already awake? Do you know how early it is?"

I had just received a new class pack when Krane walked in, running his hands through his hair. My best friend stood there, eyeing me carefully. "It's 9 AM, and you usually sleep in. But you woke up for that CLOUD announcement."

"You mean, the only network you don't use?" I frowned. "Be happy your paranoia got you outta this one, Krane."

"Whaddya mean, 'outta this one?'"

"My identity is on the line. Now being online matters more than... You know what? It's probably all over the news. Make yourself some coffee and see what's going on. Make me some, too. And toast. Preferably buttered."

"What the heck are you talking about?"

"Watch the news and make breakfast. I'm the one who invited you to my apartment after you got booted out of your old one, now you're going to get me some stuff before we lose it."

"What the-"

"WATCH THE NEWS, KRANE. For my sake." Krane walked out muttering under his breath, while I continued back on CLOUD. After watching the news, Krane was still muttering, but understanding, gave me the food and went back to his room. He had no input. Krane had no CLOUD account. He had always been paranoid over this kind of thing, so he really never made one no matter how hard I pestered him. And right when it seemed he was on the verge of making one, this happened. Returning to the computer screen, I scanned the area for any lesser monsters. Unfortunately, all seemed to be pretty damn strong.

Crud.

 

[moon]

RYUUJINX

Atreyu came and picked up a starter kit, turning into his more menacing form before putting it on. Ryuujinx gave him a cheerful smile before she jumped out of the way from an attack by a large humanoid monster with a horse's head. CLOUD really was strange when designing some things. She launched a Black Ray at the monster, who's health went down a little. Ryuujinx had never really played as a caster before. She guessed that what she'd need to do was spam Black Rays until she learned something better.

Knowing that if she attacked every monster in sight, she would get their aggro and attention and that wouldn't be good for a caster class with low defense, she instead focused on this horse headed manbeast. Unfortunately, the monster reached her before she could bring its health down completely.

She wanted to jump away, but her body was slower than usual; it was the burden of a caster class. She cursed as the large fists of the monster slammed down upon her and pressed her against the floor. Her health bar went down to about half. From that single attack? They really were down at the bottom of the leveling grid now!

"Heal! Heal me!" she shouted to whoever could have picked up a healer kit from the drop, while she got up and ran to the back of the group, trying to put some close range fighters between herself and the monster. Its large head squealed in a horse-like way before it locked eyes with her again. She launched a Black Ray and hoped that she'd soon learn some more clever technique other than a direct attack. The creature moved towards her.

"Tank! I need a tank!" she then shouted, remembering that casters in her old raids always wanted heavily armored people to protect them. That was the key to surviving. Tanks protected casters, speedy attackers moved around on their own and healers made sure that the right person was healed at the right moment. She had been one of the speedy people who could mostly take care of themselves with an occasional healing. Things had changed now.

​

 

[Swolligator]

Atreyu - Thunder Dome, Cloud Server

I got you brotozoia

The words flickered along the bottom of Atreyu's vision and he smiled his wide, animal smile. It was always nicer working in a group than alone, but they would need a much larger group to take on the amount of monsters that were present in the dome. Regardless, Atreyu felt his heath being revitalised; the energy flowing into him and pumping him up. When he usually did raids, he often stayed back as DPS, however he knew little of cycling and rotation of moves and constantly died due to aggro-ing of the monsters. With the boost of health, the world became a blur as he began to swipe, strike and claw at the giant ape in front of him.

"Heal Me! Heal Me!" Ryuujinx cried out, "Tank! Tank!"

Cursing to himself, Atreyu enticed the Gorilla monster backwards as he tried to make his way back to where Ryuujinx had been felled by a horse headed man beast. The beast was about to pummel Ryuujinx into the ground when Atreyu came within distance of it. It turned and looked at him, it's weird, un-blinking eyes seeming to gaze into oblivion.

It roared and charged at him, headbutting Atreyu in the back causing him to stumble. His health fell more drastically now and if they didn't form a raid or dungeon group now, then they would all be slaughtered; their lives lost to pixels.

"Shaman, heal Ryuujinx once, then heal me twice," he roared as he now took a beating from two beasts, "Once Ryuujinx is at full health, concentrate on healing me, but keep an eye out for AoE's that may hit either of you two."

Atreyu roared as he felt a punch from the Gorilla make contact with his chest plate while the horse-man-beast collided with his back. "Keep back to avoid aggro!"

[GENERAL]: Tanks, aggro as many of the monsters as you can, and bring them together with me. Healers, focus on tanks, but keep an eye on DPS. DPS, blast these pixels with all you have! Unless you are a Tank, keep as far out as you can.

He had never been one to lead, but his entire life was on the line right now and they couldn't just sit around waiting for the pixels to be beaten out of their DAEMONs. It was now or never that they needed to make a stand.​

 

[Lt. Col. Fantastic]

Micah Roran ~ Micah's dorm
Shaka Shaman ~ THUNDER Arena

Shaka Shaman kept his cures up on Atreyu, keeping him relatively healthy.

"Heal! Heal Me!" Ryuujinx cried out, "Tank! Tank!"

Dammit, Thought Micah, These guys are so strong!

Atreyu distracted the horse beast attacking Ryuujinx, as well as his own Gorilla monster. His health dropped dramatically as he took heavy hits from the two demons.

"Shaman, heal Ryuujinx once, then heal me twice," he roared as he now took a beating from two beasts, "Once Ryuujinx is at full health, concentrate on healing me, but keep an eye out for AoE's that may hit either of you two."

Micah focused on keeping Ryujinx alive instead of typing a response. He sent a heal her way, bring her back up to around 75%, and then sent two in quick succession to Atreyu. His health came up back to green range. He sent one last heal to Ryuujinx to give her full health, and then focused on Atreyu.

[Party Chat Box]

Shaka Shaman: Got it

A zombie looking demon was approaching the party, but very slowly. He pointed it out to the group.

Shaka Shaman: Don't let this zombie sneak up on you guys, he's near our team

Shaka Shaman: And someone should help Atreyu out, he's not really doing much damage and I don't know how long he can keep up the tanking.

 

[Miss Doronjo]

online cat ☠ LGDClaw

Of course, it didn't take long for LGDClaw and the rest of the PIRATE members to meet up; unfortunately, most of the PIRATE members already perished in the battle in the stadium. Well, they were fighting in the stadium, since they are in fact, greedy. But moving on, LGDClaw sat quietly on a nearby desk, as there was a small rally going on.

"Well, so far this has become quite a... thrill," LGClaw remarked. "Who's ever idea of this as a joke definitely needs to get a social life."

"You got that right..." replied SippieToady. "We've been trying to hunt for monsters all day but with no success yet."

"Might I suggest entering one of the beginner dungeons?" said Oryps. "We should level up before we tackle on to PIRATE matters."

"I like that brain of yours champ," remarked LHGClaw with a wink. "Soooo is it just the three of us?"

"The captain said that the some of the pirate members are either dead or off hunting somewhere," SlippieToady explained with a sigh. "And the rest are just jerks. They'll slow us down with their bad jokes and insults, y'know?"

"Yeah, I don't them either," said LHGClaw. "Especially that goat-faced, two-assed jerk of a goat! I mean, what an ass!"

"I believe he was called a satire," explained Oryps. "Nonetheless, I suppose the three of us will have to do for now. However, it'd be wise to know where we plan to go, what we plan to do, and what we plan to bring before we go."

"Simple!" LHGClaw said. "We go to the dungeon, wack a few monsters, drink lots of whiskey, and yeaaaah we'll be rich again!"

"We're doomed aren't we..." SlippieToady asked Oryps. Oryps simply replied with a nod.

 

[Swolligator]

Atreyu - Thunder Dome, Cloud Server

Atreyu felt Shaka Shaman's heal spells take effect after each from the two creatures pounded him further towards deletion. Thank god he had the Healer and DPS to back him up, even though there was only three of them, it would be enough to keep them going until others joined. A small, green icon flashed in the edge of his vision, pulling it up he had a quick read of the automated message before pushing it back down and carrying on fighting.

Note: Equipping weapons such as swords and bows increase your attack power whilst shields and armour increase your defence.​

Cursing to himself, Atreyu equipped the basic sword and shield that had come with the starter pack for his class. Within a couple of swings of his sword and bashing with the shield, he noticed an increase in his overall DPS and a significant drop in the monster's health than before. His own health even decreased at a slightly slower rate than previously.

"Such an idiot. Never was good at this dungeoning thing. Looks like I'm going to have to skill up now if I want to live." He berated himself with each swing and block.

A shattering of data announced the destruction of the Gorilla beast, while celebration would come after, Atreyu turned his attention to the Horse-headed DAEMON, taking quick peaks at any other monsters nearby.

[GENERAL]: Keep it up guys, almost there!​